Brooder.



PATENTED MAR. 10, 1903.

J. H. SWAYZE.

BROODER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 2a, 1902.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

JOSEPH H. SWAYZE, OF BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS.

BROODER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 722,437, dated March 10, 1903.

Application filed July 23, 1902. Serial No. 116,718. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JosnrrrH. SWAYZE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Belleville, in the county of St. Clair and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Brooder, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in brooders.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of brooders and to provide an exceedingly simple and inexpensive one adapted to afford perfect ventilation and capable of preventing the fumes from a lamp from reaching the interior of the brooder.

A further object of the invention is to provide a brooder of this character which will prevent young chickens from being crowded against obstructions and injured and which will also prevent young chickens from standing upon one another and crushing, smoothering, or otherwise injuring a chicken.

Also the invention has for its object to provide a brooder of this character having its floor or bottom arranged directly upon the ground or other supporting-surface to enable the chickens to readily pass into and out of it without the use of a ladder or similar means of exit and entrance and capable of being readily cleaned when necessary.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a brooder constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail sectional view illustrating the manner of mounting the drum and of protecting the reduced ends or journals of thesame.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates a casing, which may be of any desired form, but which is preferably rectangular, as illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and the said casing is provided at the front with a door 2 for the exit and entrance of young. chickens. The casing is provided with a hinged lid or cover 3, which is provided with transparent plates or panes of glass. Within the casing is arranged a cylindrical hover consisting of a circular top plate 4, suitably supported and provided at its periphery with a depending curtain 5, preferably of heavy woolen cloth or other suitable material and extending to the floor of the casing and provided at intervals with slits. The circular plate 4 is also provided with depending fabric strips 6, arranged at intervals and terminating Within about an inch of the floor or bottom of the casing. The circular top plate may be supported in any suitable manner, and in the accompanying drawings the top plate is provided with a socket 7, receiving a central post 8, which is suitablysecured to the bottom or floor of the casing. By this construction the hover may be readily detached from the casing to permit the latter to be cleaned but the hover may be detachably mounted within the casing in any other desired manner.

Arranged within the casing, near the top thereof, is a horizontal drum 9, consisting of a pipe having reduced tubular ends or journals 10, which extend through openings of the casing, as clearly shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. The drum is provided with a central bottom opening 11, located above the hover and arranged to receive the top of the chimney 12 of a lamp 13,"which is supported upon the hover. The bottom opening is of greater diameter than'the top of the lamp-chimney, and the drum is adapted to be partially r0- tated to permit the lamp to be moved outward to disengage it from the drum and to arrange it in the position shown in Fig. 2. The fumes from the lamp pass outward from the casing through the drum, and the hot air passing outward through the drum produces a circulation of air through the casing and affordsperfect ventilation, the casing being provided withsuitaole ventilators 1 1 and the circular plate of the hover being provided with ventilating-openings 15. The ends 10 of the drum are protected by conical caps 16, secured by brackets or plates 17 to the casing and adapted to prevent wind and rain from entering the ends of the drum and interfering with the operation of the heating device. The plates or brackets which support the cones are perforated for the reception of suitable fastening devices, and the cones are ofiset fromthe casing sufficiently to provide ample space to permit the escape of foul air.

It will be seen that the brooder is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction and that it is adapted to prevent young chickens from being crushed or otherwise injured and from being smothered by one another, as the brooder presents no obstructions and as the top of the hover is too low to permit chickens to stand upon one another.

What I claim is 1. A brooder comprising a casing, a hover arranged within the casing, and a drum journaled on the casing and provided with a bottom opening and capable of rotation to permit the top of a lamp-chimney to be readily introduced into and removed from the drum, substantially as described.

2. A brooder comprising a casing, a horizontal drum journaled within the casing and extending across the same and through the walls thereof and provided with a bottom opening, said drum being capable of rotation to permit the top of a lamp-chimney to be introduced into it and removed from it, substantially as described.

3. A brooder comprising a casing, a hover arranged within the casing and forming a support for a lamp, and a horizontal drum extending across the casing and through the Walls thereof, said drum being provided at its bottom with an opening and capable of r0- tation to permit the chimney of a lamp to be placed into and removed from the drum, substantially as described.

4. A brooder comprising a casing, a. hover arranged within the casing and consisting of a top plate provided with depending strips, 2. horizontal drum located above the hover and having reduced ends extending through the casing, said drum being provided with a bottom opening to receive a lamp-chimney and capable of rotation, and means for covering the ends of the drum, substantially as de'- scribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afifixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH H. SWAYZE.

Witnesses:

ADOLPH G. KLEIN, CHARLES SoHUMAoHER. 

